Ratzinger at Aushwitz
The bankruptcy of the Europeans is almost complete. It seems even the Pope himself cannot recognize or admit the complicity of the German People in the Holocaust- and Eric at Is That Legal calls him on it. In the Pope's own words-
Pope John Paul II came here as a son of the Polish people. I come here today as a son of the German people. For this very reason, I can and must echo his words: I could not fail to come here.
I had to come. It is a duty before the truth and the just due of all who suffered here, a duty before God, for me to come here as the successor of Pope John Paul II and as a son of the German people -- a son of that people over which a ring of criminals rose to power by false promises of future greatness and the recovery of the nation's honor, prominence and prosperity, but also through terror and intimidation, with the result that our people was used and abused as an instrument of their thirst for destruction and power.
Excuse me, but anyone who has read any history at all knows the German people went along with and enabled the Nazis. It wasn't until their country was being bombed back to the stone age that some had second thoughts. Ring of criminals my ass. Yes, I know there was some resistance, but taken as a whole Naziism was a pure expression of the will of those in Germany, and, hell, in Vichy France as well. If you look at what's happening and being said today, actually things aren't that much different now.
Disgusting.
h/t Glenn